Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-06
THE BIG STRIKE.
Z Few Steamers Succeed in Getting
Away The Piers Bl0ckaded
With Freight-NO RiOting,
New York Maritime Merchants Meet and
Pronounce the Longshoremen's
Strike Upjusutiable.
DOWNING TIE STRIKERS.

JERSEY CITY, N. j., Feb. 5.-Superin-
tendent Barrett of the Erie Road has
promised to advance the wages of the
! brakemen. The foremen of gangs will
receive an increase of Sill, the second
men in the gang an increase of 81 and
the others al increase OF So. Chief of
Police Murphy has promised the brake
men they would be protected from
assaults by the strikers. and has also
grated them the priveiedge Of carrying
revovers.
STRIKE IN THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY,
WEST MIDDLEsEx, Pa, Feb. Two
hundred men employed in the Ella and
! Fannie furnaces have struck for an ad-
vance of % cents a day. Nearly every
furnace in the Shenandoah valley Is
closed on account Of the strike, and 1000
men are idle.
NIGHT ATTACK.
JERSEY CITY, N. J., Feb. 5-The coal
strikers resumed their old tactics in
! HUboken this morning of obstruCting the
delivery Of coal. All of the approaches
10 the ferry were lined at an early hour
with strikers. As the coal TRUCKS were
driven to the ferry on their way 10 New
York, the drivers were stopped under
threats of violence and were compelled
to 90 back to the yards. In case the
driver offered resistance he was beaten
and his coal dumped in the street.
A large crowd of strikers visited the
Pennsylvania Road yards on HacBensack
Meadows at O'Clock this morning.
They drove off all the men employed
there, including the switchmen and
brakemen, disconnected the cars and
stopped all work for two hours.
BUSINESS CRIPPLED.
NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-There is no change
in the situation in Brooklyn. The coal
dealers supplying the jail managed to haul
little coal to the place to-day,
also to the Almshouse. The iu-
mates of the latter place were suffering.
No assaults are reported. A canal boat of
coal has been waiting to unload at the
Gowanus canal for ten days. 1t was
ordered from Jersey for the Brooklyn
Benevolent Association Il be dis
tributed to the poor under lie auspices
of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. The
men refuse to handle it es it came from
Jersey. Ten dollars man was offered,
but not man would work.
One hundred employees of the Cheese
brough Vaseline Works refused to work
to-day with "scab" coal.
Merchants did not try to ship much
freight to-day. Most Of the piers are
blocked with piles of freight. The FL
Paso of the Morgan line sailed to-
day, though not loaded. The streets
near the pier are chokeI with trucks
which have been waiting twenty-four
hours. The New York will take the
freight lost by the Ell Paso.
NEE ing of Longshoremen's Union
No. was held to day. Delegates stated
that all the companies except the Cunard
were willing to grant the increase. The
men, however, refused to 60 back until
the grievances of the coal men were
adjusted.
The City of Savannah sailed to-day for
Savannah with full cargo. The Aurania
sailed for Europe also. The superinten-
dent said she had full cargo, but
her red line was two feet above the
water. The Helvetia of the National line
is being unloaded by her crew on the
same time and rates as heretofore.
Longshoremen have no quarrel with
the stevedores, and would gladly re
turn to work If free from the die
tation of the Knights of Labor, by whom
they were ordered on strike to support
the strikers with which longhoremen have
no concern.
A meeting of merchants engaged in the
maritime trade was held to-day to con-
slider the longshoremen's strike and to
decide upon some plan of relieving
trade from its present embarrassment.
Resolutions were adopted asserting that
the strike is wholly unjus.iflahle, as there
was no trouble between employers aud
employees, and that its effect is to iniure
trade.
The Arizona of the Guion line will sail
Tuesday. The company has plenty OF
coal. The cargo is being slowed under
the supervision of stevedore who has
been with the company for years.